Abstract

AKANBI, GRACE OLUREMILEKUN  and  ABIOLU, OLUREMI ADENIKE. Nigeria’s 1969 Curriculum Conference: a practical approach to educational emancipation. Cad. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2018, vol.17, n.2, pp.479-490.  Epub May 01, 2019. ISSN 1982-7806.  https://doi.org/10.14393/che-v17n2-2018-12.

After Nigeria got her independence on 1 October, 1960, the general consensus was that there was the need for educational emancipation through decolonization of the academic contents of education; to make education relevant to the needs of the individual and the society at large. This led to the organisation of the 1969 Curriculum Conference which had far-reaching effects on the curriculum contents, purposes, goals and objectives of education in Nigeria. However, what obtains in the education sector today makes it to look as if there was no initial proper planning for educational emancipation. This paper, therefore, focuses Nigeria’s 1969 Curriculum Conference (CC) as a practical approach to educational emancipation in Nigeria. In the conceptual framework of the globalisation of education, Cookey’s (1972: xxv) observation during the conference that, “education then tends to produce children who can read and write and pass examinations and which qualify them for employment only as clerks” was an important reason for the conference and is still relevant today as a major issue for discussion in our education outcomes. This study is historical; it, therefore, employs the historical method to collect information and facts needed through both primary and secondary sources. As the study recommends among others that there is the need for total overhauling of Nigerian educational policies and philosophy, it is hoped that the research would sensitise all stakeholders in Nigeria to emphasise the importance of providing a functional educational curricula relevant to the needs of individuals and the society at large.

Keywords : Curriculum Conference; Emancipation; National Policy on Education; Decolonisation.

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